MY AMERICAN EXPERIENCE – O’Hanlon Online Gallery Show

My American Experience

Art: Orin Carpenter

Juried by Lauren Palmor, Ph.D

Poetry: Cruwys Brown

March 9 – April 30, 2021

Artist Roundtable Discussion on Zoom
with Cruwys Brown

America claims to be the land of the free, a country where dreams are nurtured and allowed to come true. It professes to welcome the immigrant and anyone seeking a better life.

But the experience of America to the individual living here is as broad as the country is big. Current events bring to light how far the myth is from reality for many within our borders. Yet some fortunate people do experience the abundance and opportunities available here.

We invited artists to share their uniquely American Experiences. Freedom of expression is still one of the sacred promises of the Founding Fathers. This show intends to encourage and honor that freedom through art.

1. Our common flag bears its own silent witness

Mark Landry “Dalili the Doctor” Oils, 5’x4′ $20000

Naomi Spinak “Sweet Land of Liberty, 1999-2018” Quilting cotton, batting, and embroidery thread, 67×103 $15000

Gary Horn “Betrayal: How Many Times Can A Man Turn His Head And Pretend He Just Doesn’t See” Oil on canvas, 60×38 $5000

2. Bent by memory

Sandra Cassayre “We Had Plans” Acrylic on canvas, 36×60 $4000

Suz Lipman “It’s Tops Diner” Archival Inkjet Print, 13×19 $450

3. This promised land

Oscar Lopez “Soñadora” Oil On Canvas, 14×11 SOLD

Rose Freeland “Girl at the Border” Pastel, 14x18X12 $3500

Edward Gonzales “We Who Endure” Acrylic on canvas, 48×48 $9800

Myra Eastman “Santa Cruz #2” Acrylic on Canvas, 60×48 $4000

4. Eight minutes and forty-nine seconds

Rachel Ungerer “Daughters March” Acrylic Paint on Canvas, 28×22 $550

Julia Ross “Troubled Waters: Minneapolis/Mississippi River/George Floyd” Oil on canvas, 40×30 $3000

Orin Carpenter “Rise Up” Mixed Media, 24×24 NFS

Orin Carpenter “No Heart” Mixed Media, 24×18 NFS

5. You are the young wonder-tree, grown out of ruins. Baronga–African Folk Tale

Gene Dominique “Joy!” Archival Ink Jet Print, 14×20 $850

Abi Salami “Click Here to Unsubscribe to European Beauty Standards” Acrylic paint on canvas, 48×36 $5500

Guy Joy “The Leap” Acrylic on canvas, 48×36 $6900

Ora Clay “Reading Under the Covers” Art Quilt, 30×32 $900

Blair Treuer “Evan” Fabric and Thread mounted to wire, 43x63x4 $7850

6. Gather what you can to bring out its lone song

Susan Zimmerman “New Land” Mixed media: paper, cardboard, linen, acrylic paint, 92x70x24 $2000

Kacy Jung “Free Will Is an Illusion-2” Archival inkjet print, 36×24 $850

Rosemary Ishii MacConnell “My Father’s Journey Series: Sorrows of the Chrysanthemum” Wood jade, porcelain, stone, silver wire, pod, metal, 9x11x8 $2500

Ellen Bepp “My Will” Hand cut paper, 19×17 NFS

Roz Ritter “Migrants” Hand embroidery, 32×40 $3500

Julia Feldman “Emigration Heptad” (series of seven) Mixed media, stitched, painted, cotton, linen, silk, metal, 12×40 $1900

Meredith Knight “A Brief History of Inequality in America” Ceramic, lucite, metal, acrylic ink, 6.25’x8.5’x1.5′ $750

7. Oh friend, do you not love that color can create?

Miran Lee “Waiting Spring” Korean silk, hand-sewn, 49×48 $8000

Jennifer Lay “Ties” Wood, steel, stones, faux silk fabric, faux pearl beads, 42x18x24 $8800

Jennifer Lay “Family Dinner” Mixed Media; paper mache, acrylic paint, cardboard, tubing, 38x36X14 NFS

8. Where do you come from?

Francoise Drouillet “Mediterranean” Oil on canvas, 36×48 NFS

Robert Hill “Commonalities” Acrylic on canvas, oil, leather, fabric, buttons, 5’x4.5′ $10500

Katie Haas “Teetering” Acrylic and collage, 6’x2′ $1250

Stephen Mangum Illusions of My Childhood Series No. 4 “Freedom Summer” Oil on linen, 72×80 $25000

9. Out from darkness hums our most amazing tune

Ryan Martin “More Koshka Than Gato” Oil on Canvas, 36×48 $10000

Samantha Simpson “Saga 2” Watercolor, ink on paper, 51×92 NFS

Joan Ryan “Mars” Oil, 52×46 $4000

Laurie Hoen “The Temptation of Privilege” Oil on wood panel, 45×30 NFS

10. What region of the earth is not full of our calamities? –Virgil

Ahn Lee “Cocoon” Porcelain, Original Jun-inspired Glaze, EMT, Thread, 8’x4′ $10000

Rosemary Meza-DesPlas “Invader of Skin, Invader of Bone” Watercolor on Handmade Mexican Paper, 46×38 $1750

James DePietro (19) Remembrance Oil/ Acrylic on gesso board, 12×12 NFS

11. At dusk the metamorphosis began, the still slight light

Edith Dillon “A Different Monument: The Inevitability of Freedom” Sculpture – welded found and fabricated steel, 25x31x21 $6000

Janice Wall “Words” Cut Paper Construction, 70x50x3 $2000

Linda Whitney “Blue Moon Butterfly Dancer” Mezzotint, 30×22 $3000

Logan Woodle “The only thing that grows here now is cell towers.” Pewter, Sterling Silver, Copper, Brass, Garnet, 27x6x6 $8000

11. If you turn away, turn back, look again, again

Jennifer Garza-Cuen “Untitled – Amtrak Waiting Room, Reno, NV” Photography, 32×40 $2100

Shamy Noily “4th of July, Washington Square Park 1961” Acrylic on Canvass, 10×7.5 $800

Veronica Leanos “A Shower Without Housekeeping In Beverly Hills” Mixed media, 9×12 $250

Sincere thanks to our juror Lauren Palmor, Ph.D.

JUROR

LAUREN PALMOR is the Assistant Curator of American Art at the de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. She received a Master of Arts with Merit in the History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art (2009), and a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Washington (2016), where her dissertation research addressed questions of ageism in the study of nineteenth-century art. She has held fellowships at Winterthur and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and has contributed to a number of exhibition catalogs and scholarly publications, including Revelations: Art from the African American South (FAMSF, 2017), Cult of the Machine: Precisionism and American Art (FAMSF in association with Yale, 2018), and American Art: Collecting and Connoisseurship (Merrell, 2020). She frequently supports institutional digital partnerships, working collaboratively to design new ways of sharing and experiencing American art with museum audiences.